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சிங்கள பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சு இப்படியொரு செய்தியை வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. LTTE terrorists launched a mortar attack targeting VIP air movement carrying Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe along with few foreign diplomats around 9 this morning. Defense sources said that the mortars were launched as the two helicopters landed at the Webber stadium in the Batticaloa town. Sources further confirmed that Minister suffered no injuries in the attack. However, few people including a foreign diplomat have suffered injuries. A helicopter belonging to a private airliner was slightly damaged in the attack. More information will follow.

Somali sex gang groomed and raped underage British schoolgirls saying it was 'part of their culture' Men ranging in age from 18 and 22, encouraged girls, one of who was just 13, to have sex with them in a flat and hotel rooms http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/somali-sex-gang-groomed-raped-4706033?ICID=FB_mirror_main This is the shocking moment a member of a brutal prostitution gang checked into a hotel to rape a 13-year-old girl. In the sickening CCTV shot, twisted Jusuf Abdirizak, 20, is seen at the reception of the Premier Inn in Bristol where he and Said Zakaria, 22, attacked the terrified girl. The teenager had been traffic…

U.S. urges Sri Lanka to address Human Rights issues The United States has urged the Sri Lankan Government to fulfill all of the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation report and also address those issues that the report did not cover. “We’re still studying the full report, I do have to say that we have concerns that the report, nonetheless, does not fully address all the allegations of serious human rights violations that occurred in the final phase of the conflict. So this leaves questions about accountability,” U.S. department of State spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters in response to a question in Washington DC on Monday. To an…

UN and world bodies express disappointment over withdrawal from the ceasefire agreement UN and the international community have expressed disappointment over Sri Lanka's abrogation of ceasefire agreement. UN Secretary General's statement in this regard emphasizes that all parties should pay attention to solve the problem without bloodshed. He expressed concern over the abrogation of ceasefire while escalation of violence and urged the state to guarantee the security of the humanitarian workers and civilians. US, Canada and Norway have also expressed displeasure over the abrogation of ceasefire. However, India has not issued an official statement in this re…

Eelam war IV rages on several fronts- Situation Report *** Tigers use long-range artillery to attack Palaly base *** Tigers occupy Army bunkers in Muhamalai but troops fight back Plans by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to lay siege on the Jaffna peninsula began to unravel on Friday evening as Eelam War IV raged for a second successive week. The most disturbing development came when guerrillas directed artillery fire at the Security Forces Headquarters (SFHQ) in Jaffna. It fell on many places including the runway at the Palaly Air Force base located in the same complex. A Bell 212 helicopter was damaged. Military officials said the guerrilla…

Daily News 17 March..... Anandasangaree deplores TNA stand on Hoole COLOMBO: No one should meddle with the administration of the Jaffna University and ruin the education of students, states TULF Leader V. Anandasangaree, referring to protests made by the TNA regarding the appointment of Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole as Vice Chancellor of the Jaffna University. "Some TNA Parliamentarians had met the President and requested him not to appoint Prof. Hoole. One can understand the students of the University protesting, may be out of ignorance or instigated by some one. "But the Members of Parliament protesting shows the subservient position they hold in their …

Ireland and Tamil Eelam The nation of Eelam Tamils are conjoined with the Irish due to similar British supervised counter-insurgency and geo-politics of imperialism. By Athithan Jayapalan In a historic battle against the might of the British Empire during Easter week in 1916, hundreds of Irish nationalist revolutionaries who made up the vanguard of the Republican movements’ struggle for Irish sovereignty, took positions in and around Dublin, attacking and occupying government buildings and strategic locations. Although the rebellion in itself was quelled with the execution of 15 of its leaders and imprisonment of the rest, the determination, heroism and …

LTTE activists campaigning to gain support from British parliamentarians R. SRIKANTHAN in London UK: According to LTTE circles a determined effort is made by its campaigners to obtain signatures from British parliamentarians criticising Sri Lankan government handling the present crisis in the island. Already two left wing parliamentarians have signed the petition and the campaigners are experiencing difficulties as others approached are not willing to put forward their names. In a political meeting held on February 11th in East London, attended by Nava Sama Samaja Party leader Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratna, the pro-LTTE speakers appealed to the publ…

The issuing of Tamil Eelam national identity cards was officially begun today, on 1 January 2007 with the very first Tamil Eelam national identity card issued to the Tamil National Leader, V Pirapaharan. The Commissioner of Tamil Eelam Department of Registration of Persons, S Jeyenthiran, handed the first national identity card to the Tamil National Leader today. 31 December 2006 http://www.ltteps.org/

Matthew Youlden speaks nine languages fluently and understands more than a dozen more. He’s what is known as a polyglot, a member of the multilingual elite who speaks six or more languages fluently. He’s also a sociolinguist who studies the revitalization of minority languages. But to see him in action on a daily basis – deftly and comfortably talking to native-speakers in their own languages – suggests that he’s more than a polyglot. Matthew, who is originally from Manchester, England, is a language chameleon: Germans think he’s German, Spaniards think he’s Spanish, Brazilians think he’s Portuguese (he proudly speaks the good-old European variety). By his own account, M…

Paramilitary group abducts Muslims, demands ransom 11 Muslim dairy farm workers out of a group of 18, going out to work from the Muslim village of Thambalai, were abducted Saturday by the Karuna paramilitary group on Pollonaruwa-Sunkavil road, 10 k.m. east of Pollonaruwa. The abductees were being held in the close by jungles of Sinnavil, with ransom demands of 1 million rupees, relatives of the farm workers said. Thambalai villagers have managed to collect 100,000 rupees, and paid the abductors who then released 5 farm workers, and demanded 500,000 rupees for the release of the remaining 4. The abductees are detained and guarded by 6 armed paramilitaries in Sri …

WORTH SHARING !! A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice lookin expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain an…

Satellite Image Analysis to Establish Sri Lanka’s War Crimes - TAG, USA TAG will be using several images of the war area acquired from a Satellite Image vendor at different dates prior to and after May 18th when the Sri Lanka’s war officially ended, and will be processing the data to collect evidence of the massacre by Sri Lanka. Times UK has alleged from aerial photos and using expert analysis that the number killed is close to 20,000 civilians. TAG has assembled a group of experts and volunteers to do the work, and have sought help from image analysis departments in two premier educational institutions for assistance. As part of the effort, the team will at…

Balasingham to visit Vanni next week [TamilNet, January 17, 2006 11:33 GMT] Mr. Anton Balasingham, the chief negotiator and political strategist of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), will visit the LTTE held region of Vanni, northern Sri Lanka, on 23rd January in a fresh effort to resume the peace process. Mr. Balasingham will assist the LTTE leader, Mr. V. Pirapaharan, during the forthcoming meeting next week between Mr. Erik Solheim, the Norwegian Minister of International Development, and the LTTE leadership. Mr. Solheim, who is also the Minister in charge Norway's peace process in Sri Lanka, during his visit to the island, will meet President…

Raman’s war and his historical analogies By Neville de Silva The other day a journalist friend of mine (more a TV person than a print journalist) emailed me an article by B. Raman, a former additional secretary of India’s cabinet secretariat and currently the director of the Institute For Topical Studies in Chennai. Given the political turbulence in Tamil Nadu over Sri Lanka and the pressure by Chennai politicians on India’s central government to take positive action to ensure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, it was useful to read what a Chennai-based analyst whose writings appear regularly in the Colombo media had to say about the military conflict. More so since…

Sri Lanka talks start and stall, violence rages Thu Jun 8, 2006 1:17 PM BST Email This Article | Print This Article | RSS [-] Text [+] By Peter Apps COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government said Tamil Tiger rebels had refused to meet them at talks in Oslo on Thursday, while at least three people were killed as the two sides blamed each other for new attacks. More than 400 people have been killed since early April and the island's north and east is now locked in a low-intensity conflict. But the Oslo meeting, the first between the two sides since February, was to only centre on the role of the Nordic mission monitoring what is left of a 2002 cease-fire. …

Reliable sources based in Eastern Sri Lanka said “A Jihad group active in Sri Lanka has started training their suicide group for targeting their enemies.” The most chilling detail we received on the suicide bomber who recently did his operation at Colombo targeting a police bus and killing 15 policemen, was that the bomber was from a Jihad group in Sri Lanka. We note that a Jihad is defined as “a holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims.” According to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID), the recent suicide bomber’s National Identity Card number was 820244769V, his name Ibrahim Levke Mubharak and address Hospital Road, Kinnia, Trincomalee. “Twe…

Swiss Tamils look to preserve their culture Tamils first came to Switzerland in the 1980s as refugees fleeing civil war in Sri Lanka and now make up a sizeable community in the country. Although they encountered prejudices at first, Tamils are now regarded as having adapted well to their new home. But they are still not fully integrated. In 1983 the Tamil Tigers group began fighting for a separate homeland for ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, claiming discrimination by the majority Sinhalese. The conflict escalated and many Tamils fled abroad to Europe and North America. An estimated 35,000 Tamils now live in Switzerland, of which ten per cent are naturalis…

S.Lanka truce monitor base hit by grenade attack Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:11 PM GMT By Simon Gardner COLOMBO (Reuters) - Attackers threw a grenade into the compound of truce monitors in Sri Lanka's restive east early on Saturday, damaging vehicles and a building but causing no injuries, officials said, as fears of a return to war grow. The first direct attack against the monitors since a 2002 cease-fire halted a two-decade civil war came just hours after the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) reprimanded both Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels and the government over a spike in violence. "A hand grenade was lobbed into our compound in Batti…

A Calendar is conceived and designed by logic and astronomy rather than emotions and myths of politics. If people don’t understand the calendar they follow, educate them. If any section of the society thinks that the calendar is its prerogative, liberate the calendar, rather than mutilating it or abandoning it. If there is any problem in the calendar it has to be investigated and corrected by a forum of astronomers, climatologists and environmental scientists, sitting along with traditional astronomers historians and Tamil scholars. Any society, which doesn’t care to investigate and understand its own heritage of science, is not going to make any progress. It will always …

Rights group wants S.Lanka ex-rebel charged in UK By Peter Apps LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Britain should look at trying ex-Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel Karuna Amman, detained on immigration charges, for war crimes, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. The former eastern Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) commander is accused by rights experts of child soldier recruitment, extortion and torture both before and after he split from the mainstream rebels in 2004. Britain's Home Office said late on Friday Karuna was detained after a joint operation between the police and immigration authorities, giving no further details. Human Rights Watch said the au…

Interview with K.Tharmakulasingham Administrative Officer Health Department Mullaithivu - Makeshift Hospital Attack Get Flash to see this player. http://www.vakthaa.tv/

முஸ்லீம் தமிழ் உறவுகள் பற்றிய அடிப்படைக் கேள்வி, முஸ்லீம் தமிழ் உறவுகள் சிதைக்கப்படுவதால் நன்மை அடைபவர்கள் யார்? http://www.tamilguardian.com/beta/news_det....asp?newsid=436 http://www.sangam.org/taraki/articles/2006...stion_Again.php

சுவிஸ் எங்கும் கடும் பனி காரணமாக பாதிப்பு ஏற்பட்டு பல பாதைகள் மூடப்பட்டு போக்கு வரத்துகள் ஸ்தம்பிதம் அடைந்துள்ளது. எதிர்வரும் செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை வரை இது தொடரும் என காலநிலை அவதான நிலையம் அறிவித்துள்ளது. ஆபத்துகள் தவிர்ந்த நேரங்களில் தனியார் வாகனங்களை பாவிக்க வேண்டாம் என போலீசார் அறிவித்துள்ளனர். மேலதிக விபரங்களுக்கு: http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.htm...y=1141565986000

As Tamil National reported earlier the Sri Lanka Army has not silenced the gunfire as announced to the world. The Sri Lanka Military attack on no fire zone continues as usual. In today’s attack from midnight till 5 pm, more than 200 civilians were dead and around 300 were injured. Kapilan, a fisherman from Valaignarmadam spoke to Tamil National today. In the interview with us, he narrates the real situation inside the no fire zone. கபிலன் அவர்களின் செவ்வியை கேட்க Courtesy:TamilNational.com